Sleep and Breathing in Pediatric Neuromuscular Disorders (NMD)

July 22, 2026

This webinar is designed to improve the recognition, evaluation, and management of sleep and breathing disorders in children with neuromuscular disorders (NMDs). As understanding of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), nocturnal hypoventilation, and respiratory muscle weakness evolves—along with diagnostic tools and noninvasive ventilation strategies—clinicians benefit from practical, case-based guidance to support early identification and optimal intervention. This program will help participants translate emerging evidence into real-world clinical decision-making, addressing disease-specific variability, long-term management, and family-centered care. Faculty will examine the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of SDB, nocturnal hypoventilation, and progressive respiratory insufficiency, highlighting their implications for diagnostic evaluation and management.

Target Audience

This webinar is designed for pediatric neurologists, pulmonologists, sleep medicine specialists, neurology trainees, respiratory therapists, advanced practice providers, and other HCP's  involved in the care of children with NMDs.

 

Commercial Support

This activity is supported from an independent medical education grant from Shionogi Inc.

    

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize sleep and breathing complications across pediatric NMDs, including disease-specific risk factors.
  • Apply appropriate screening and diagnostic strategies to identify and monitor sleep-disordered breathing and nocturnal hypoventilation.
  • Integrate evidence-based approaches to noninvasive ventilation and longitudinal respiratory management tailored to individual patient and family needs.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AANP Contact Hours

    Nurse Practitioners

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and MDA.  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 1.50 contact hour(s) (which includes 0.00 hour(s) of pharmacology).

  • 1.50 AAPA Category 1 CME

    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacist

    Pharmacists
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this continuing education activity for 1.50 contact hours.

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Physicians
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.50 ANCC Contact Hours

    Credit being awarded: 1.50 ANCC contact hours

  • 1.50 ASWB continuing education credits

    Social Workers
    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AKH Inc. Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education credits.

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Non-MD

    Non-Physicians Seeking AMA Credit
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

     

Course opens: 
07/22/2026
Course expires: 
07/22/2026
Event starts: 
07/22/2026 - 2:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
07/22/2026 - 3:30pm EDT
Cost:
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Disclosures

It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

 

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product

This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Committee Member, Planner, Staff(s)

Dorothy Duffy, RPh

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Bernadette Makar, MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Broc Pollinger

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Course Director(s)

Kathleen Yoder, PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Reviewer(s)

Rebecca Lakofsky, BSN, RN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Speaker, Instructor, Faculty(s)

Reshma Amin, MD, MSc, FRCPC

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

John Pascoe, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Cuixia Tian, MD

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Biogen;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Sarepta;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Catalyst;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Itf ;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with RegenxBio;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Solid Bioscience;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Entrada;.

Alexander Zygmunt, MD

has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Bridge Bio;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Catalyst;.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and MDA. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

 

 

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AANP Contact Hours

    Nurse Practitioners

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and MDA.  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 1.50 contact hour(s) (which includes 0.00 hour(s) of pharmacology).

  • 1.50 AAPA Category 1 CME

    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacist

    Pharmacists
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this continuing education activity for 1.50 contact hours.

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Physicians
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.50 ANCC Contact Hours

    Credit being awarded: 1.50 ANCC contact hours

  • 1.50 ASWB continuing education credits

    Social Workers
    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AKH Inc. Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education credits.

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Non-MD

    Non-Physicians Seeking AMA Credit
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

     

Price

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